A Proposed Etiology of Psychogenic Nonepileptic Seizures

Abstract

In recent decades, the high incidence of psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES) coming out of epilepsy monitoring clinics implicates the practice of relying on video electroencephalogram (vEEG) test results. Psychogenic nonepileptic seizures are paroxysmal episodes that resemble epileptic seizures (ES) but do not show epileptiform discharges on the ictal vEEG, and thus are presumed to be hysterical, or psychological, in origin. Abstract